Simone Lucas Kłodawa

Simone Lucas Kłodawa (she/they) is a non-fiction filmmaker, digital media artist and educator, a white queer femme, Jewish-Ashkenazi settler in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang. They work with cultural artifacts and archives as starting points: personal correspondences, anecdotal stories, silent films, traditional recipes, and oral histories. She weaves them into surrealist, imaginative tableaus, troubling their status as ethnographic curiosities or documentary evidence. Her work asks whether there is a genuine way to capture past experiences, and how these experiences can be made accessible through metaphor and fantasy.

Simone currently teaches undergraduate media production courses. They hold an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University.

Photo by Saulė Norkutė.